Verizon moving 2,000 jobs to Hilliard

Verizon Wireless will move 1,500 workers from Dublin on the north side of Columbus to nearby Hilliard and plans to add 500 workers at the new site in the next five years, according to Columbus Business First.

The new location is a 198,000-square-foot building next to a 400-worker Internet network services and data center run by its parent company Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ).

The first jobs will begin moving in the second quarter 2014.

“Our lease is up in Dublin in 2014 and we own a building in Hilliard,” company spokeswoman Laura Merritt told Columbus Business First in an exclusive interview. “It makes sense for us to consolidate into a (Verizon) corporate building.”